Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in the range and variety of her work as a vocalist, and performer. As the winner of an unprecedented seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list for 100 influential people in 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. An enthralling singer who has an unparalleled talent for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway in addition to the stage of opera and on TV. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career as a recording and concert artist who performs regularly at world's foremost venues. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home the fifth time and first time for the category of leading actress for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on London's West End. In addition to making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she was also the first actor to be awarded awards in all four acting categories. The credits for McDonald's theatre work include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald first appeared on television as a drama actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. In 1999, she co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks came in 2003 in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's production called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around an epidemic, produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order drama The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She guest stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.